Sentences with phrase «exclude black jurors»

The selection practice in question wasn't designed to exclude black jurors.

«Key Findings: • «Dallas County prosecutors excluded black jurors at more than twice the rate they rejected whites...» More examples here.

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The decision overturned a Michigan murder conviction because the state court selected jurors in a way that disproportionately and systematically excluded blacks.

[*] This should have warned prosecutors that using peremptories to exclude blacks on the assumption that no black juror could fairly judge a black defendant would violate the Equal Protection Clause.

And because the case - specific use of peremptory challenges by the State does not deny blacks the right to serve as jurors in cases involving nonblack defendants, it harms neither the excluded jurors nor the remainder of the community.